We study the optimal design of information nudges directed to present-biased consumers
who make consumption decisions over time without exact prior knowledge of their long-term …

Nudges, which are interventions that do not restrict choice, have become widespread in
policy applications. I develop a general and tractable framework to analyze the welfare …

While nudges are still mostly associated with affecting individual choices for their own
longrun interest, ie dealing with internalities, they are increasingly used in order to reduce …

Providing people with more information and more options may seem as a good policy.
However, because of limited attention and cognitive resources, people are not able to use …

Government has a valuable role as the “nudger of last resort,” especially when nudges can't
or shouldn't be limited to self-aware or paying customers or when nudges replace more …

We examine the causes and policy implications of strategic (willful) ignorance of risk as an
excuse to over-engage in risky health behavior. In an experiment on Copenhagen adults …

Nudges are popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of 'norm-
nudges'—nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, eliciting or changing …

We investigate costly yet futile attempts at self-control when consumption of a harmful
product has a binary breakdown/no-breakdown nature and individuals tend to …

We investigate self-serving information avoidance by consumers when revelation is
stochastic and the revealed information is potentially erroneous. Our formal considerations …

Self-control problems have recently received considerable attention from economic
theorists. We conducted two studies involving behavioral interventions expected to affect …